VERBAL COMMUNICATION

5. When one person misperceives the meaning of another’s verbal communication
8. Presenting information in a straightforward fashion rather than framing it in vague or ambiguous terms (two words)
13. The use of spoken or written language to interact with others (two words)
15. The use of language to attack someone’s personal attributes such as their weight, looks, intelligence, or physical ability (two words)
17. The meanings you associate with words based on your life experiences (two words)
19. Information that is responsive to what others have said and applicable to the situation
20. Responding with partial truth but leaving out important information
21. Items that are used to represent things
22. How you control language with grammar, spelling, and conversational structure (two words)

1. Words that display contempt, dislike, or disdain for a group or its members (two words)
2. Information that is shared is truthful
3. Presenting all the information that is appropriate and important to share
4. Presenting a message that is entirely false
6. Variations on a language developed by a large group of people within a particular culture who speak the same language. The variations may include unique phrases, words, and pronounciations.
7. The meanings of words (two words)
9. Habitually attacking a person using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies, or mobile phones (two words)
10. Intentionally false communication that harms a person’s reputation
11. Literal meanings of your words, as agreed on by members of your culture (two words)
12. Making your verbal communication as informative, honest, relevant, and clear as required for a particular situation (two words)
14. The deliberate use of uninformative, untruthful, irrelevant, or vague language for the purpose of misleading others
16. Answering questions with ambiguous language designed to hide the truth
18. Changing the topic to avoid revealing troublesome information